Pudge Heffelfinger played his first paid game, making him the first professional American Football player.
Ida B. Wells published 'Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.'
The detective novel 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle was published.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in American schools.
Notorious American outlaws, The Dalton Brothers, set out to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
The first-ever American football game played at night occurred in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Jupiter's fifth moon.
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
Ellis Island opened as a US immigration inspection station.